Re: [Geotools-devel] removing xerces dependency

[Justin D. <jde...@op...>]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:02 AM, Andrea Aime
<and...@ge...>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Justin Deoliveira <jde...@op...>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> So I recently I took a crack at removing the xerces dependency as we
>> discussed in our last skype meeting. For the most part this was relatively
>> straight forward. Unfortunately one thing i wasn't quite able to figure out
>> was some stuff in app-schema-resolver module. The AppSchemaValidator class
>> uses an implementation of what was XMLEntityResolver directly in xerces. I
>> tried porting this to the jaxp EntityResolver interface which is included
>> in the JDK, but couldn't make it work. So I think i will need some help
>> there. Or we can simply keep xerces as a dependency of just app-schema.
>>
>> Here is the branch I am currently working on.
>>
>>   https://github.com/jdeolive/geotools/tree/noxmldeps
>>
>> And the corresponding geoserver branch:
>>
>>   https://github.com/jdeolive/geoserver/tree/noxmldeps
>>
>> WIth these changes all unit tests pass in both code bases, and so do the
>> GeoServer cite tests.
>>
>
> Well done! Hopefully Ben & co will chime in for the last push on app-schema
>

Indeed. And also while we are at it i will pose the question. There is also
the opportunity to prune out some other xml dependencies as well. Namely
jdom, xpp and stax from what i can tell. All seem to have equivalents built
into the jdk. Is it worth pruning them out?

>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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